James A. Grieg. 



[No. 3 



The polyps are arranged in two single rows along the margin 

 between the ventral and lateral surfaces, one row on each side» 

 The ventral surface is the dorsal surface of other writers. I have 

 here followed Jungeesen ( x ) as the polyps in Funiculina, like those 

 in Pennatula and Kophobelemnon, turn their dorsal side upwards 

 and towards the axis, while the ventral side, on the contrary, 

 turas outwards and downwards. The polyp-cells have a length of 

 up to 4.5 mm., and a breadth of 1 mm. Most of the larger polyps 

 are to be found at the apex of the rachis, though they also occur 

 in the lower parts. Between the larger polyps are found numerous 

 smaller ones down to very small zooid-like buds. 



There is a great resemblance between early stages of Funiculina 

 quadrangularis on one side and K6lliker's Leptoptilum gracile from 

 the north coast of New Zealand, and the variety described by Da- 

 nielssen and Koeen from the Bergen Fjord, Leptoptilum gracile 

 var. norvegicum, on the other. I had previously been struck by this 

 resemblance, but is was especially marked in the present Funiculina 

 from Herlofjord. The similarity between these two genera also 

 appears distinctly on placing K6llikee's own descriptions oi Funi- 

 culina and Leptoptilum side by side. 



Leptoptilum. 



(Report on the Pennatulida ; 

 Rep. 8c. Res. Challenger Exp. Zool. 

 vol. I, part II, p. 27). 



„Polyps with cells, sessile, dis- 

 posed alternately in one single 

 row on .each side of the rachis . 



No real zooids, but a 



certain number of rudimentary 

 polyps between each pair of the 

 full-grown individuals." 



Funiculina. 



(Anatom, system. Beschreibung 

 der Alcyonarien, Abtheil I, Pen- 

 natuliden, S. 250 and 369). 



„Die Polypen .... stehen in 

 zwei einfachen Reihen rechts und 

 links an den dorsalen Kanten des 

 Kieles und in der Nåhe derselben 

 erkennt man an derDorsalseite des 

 Kieles da und dort noch verein- 

 zelte ganz kleine Individuen, wie 

 Zooide, die jedoch nichts anderes 

 als unentwickelte Geschlechts- 

 thiere sein mochten, indem die 



C 1 ) „Om bygningen og udviklingen af Kolonien hos Pennatula phosphorea" , 

 Videnskab. meddel, fra den naturhist. foren., 1888, pag. 154. Cf. Zeitschr. Wiss. 

 Zool. vol. XLVII, 1888, p. 626. 



